TransLink D60LFR (# 714) up to 110Km/h!!!

Up a long steep hill, then comes the good part, 10 minutes of highway action. The 257 is the toughest route in the system for buses simply because of what you see here, a long steep hill followed by a long highway stretch. This particular trip reaches 110Km/h which is, I believe, the speed to which these buses are governed to.

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• Flyer
• D60LFR
• fast
• highway
• hill
• climb
• cummins
• ism
• West
• Vancouver
• Transit

[GordonFreemanD40]

hey VancouversLocalNers, shouldn't they stop starting and stopping the buses' engines soon? they might eventually blow up and you and other vancouver people will be killed :( that's why we dont do that in toronto.

[VancouversLocalNerd]

@GordonFreemanD40 I'm not sure exactly what you mean, if you're asking why they shut off the engines while on layover it's to save fuel, I don't know of anywhere where the buses are kept idling all the time, starting and stopping the engine can't make it explode.

[gmcbuses]

The Hill part I take it happened at, and towards the end of the video. This bus probably has a V8 engine. All of the ones on this route probably have it.

[VancouversLocalNerd]

@gmcbuses The hill climb is at the start before the highway section, this bus is powered by a Cummins ISM 6 cylinder 330hp engine with 6 speed Allison transmission. This route doesn't so much involve ridiculously powerful buses as much as it simply involves drivers putting their foot down. I remember back when there used to be 6V92 powered D60s running this route.... that was awesome.

[talldude123]

Wow that's a nice bus, and damn, that is fast! Aren't the D40LF's governed to 95 KM/h?

[VancouversLocalNerd]

@talldude123 Possibly, although this is a completely different bus with a much larger engine, we used 2 GPS units and both read 110Km/h. The speed limitations are set electronically and can be easily modified or removed by mechanics.

[NovaLFS]

I love this video, on the highway, the bus sings and passes ahed of cars and a motorcycle. Also, I love the sound of the bus on the highway, I love how bus sings on the highway.

[Southeastern4204]

That Allison is working

[GordonFreemanD40]

so wait... D40LFs can travel faster than our Orion VIIs?

[birchmount19]

@GordonFreemanD40 drivers on route 192 always hit 100 km/h, our D40LF's (TTC) can hit up to 120 km/h on the highway.

[GordonFreemanD40]

and yes, ontario is the province where they keep the engines running.

[GordonFreemanD40]

@VancouversLocalNerd, Cold starts, igniting fuel, can make a bus' engine set on fire. thats exactly what happened last year, when I was on a coach bus, brand new, and during a normal electric start the engine blew up and 30 people were killed. That just proves it

[GordonFreemanD40]

only bus route in toronto going more than 90 kn/h is route 192 airport rocket.